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Hello YA librarians! The mass market edition of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (Little, Brown) goes on sale November 1. Keep track of what goes on sale, and when, with the Children’s Bookshelf’s handy On-Sale Calendar.
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| TechTrends |
Get Your Game On
Both video game pros, and those players who favor the more traditional board game style, can get in on the fun with the American Library Association’s first annual National Gaming Day, set for November 15.
A national tournament for the digital set will allow gamers to watch how they’re faring among competitors around the country throughout the day. At the time, librarians are hoping they can set a record for getting the most people to play a board game simultaneously—enlisting patrons to play Hasbro’s Pictureka, a memory game that bills itself as a visual hide-and-seek. The toy manufacturer is donating a copy of the game to every public library in the United States, and branches that want to participate can register online to ensure they receive a copy in time for the big day. read more... |
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Declare Yourself: Speak. Connect. Act. Vote.: More Than 50 Celebrate Americans Tell You Why by
From SLJ Nov-08
Gr 9 Up–From America Ferrera (of Ugly Betty fame) to the artists of Maroon Five, 50 Americans encourage young adults to make their voices heard. |
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Diary of a Fly
PreS-Gr 3–Fly Girl keeps a diary documenting her exploits at Flight School, at home with her 327 siblings, and with friends Worm and Spider in this animated version of Doreen Cronin’s popular book (Joanna Cotler Books, 2007). |
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Fast & Feisty
K-Gr 4–Singer/songwriter Katie O’Sullivan and her partner, Steve Borne, once again don their alternate personalities—Princess Katie and Racer Steve—to entertain with ten original songs that cover topics from the holidays to hide and seek to sharing. |
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| News and Views |
| Babar Comes to New York |
Babar the elephant, the beloved protagonist of nearly four dozen children’s books, is now the star of his very own show: an exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.
For the last two weeks, crowds of all ages have been coming to the former home and library of financier Pierpont Morgan to see “Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors,” which features more than 170 works, including manuscript drafts, sketches, and watercolors, for the first book by each of Babar's two authors, father and son Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff. read more... |
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| LA to Expand Family Place Centers |
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The new “Family Place Centers” will build on the library’s existing 25 centers, which launched four years ago and have been hugely successful, attracting families from “every ethnic and socioeconomic group” in the area, says Penny Markey, CLAPL’s library’s coordinator of youth services. read more... |
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| Watch and Read: Spotlight on Media Tie-ins |
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 Fairy Fanfare
Tinker Bell (G), a direct-to-DVD computer-animated film from Walt Disney Pictures, will be released on October 28, 2008. Starring the character originally created by J. M. Barrie and prominently featured in Disney’s classic Peter Pan (1955), this movie is set in the magical realm of Never Land. The Never fairies each possess a special talent, and Tinker Bell, the newest inhabitant of Pixie Hollow, has a knack for fixing and inventing things. Still, she longs to travel to the mainland with the nature fairies to assist with the changing of seasons, and tries to learn a different skill. Her repeated efforts result in catastrophe—and the possibility that spring may not arrive this year—until Tinker Bell, with the help of fairy friends, discovers the
importance of remaining true to her own heart. read more... |
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| Administrative Librarian |
Delaware Division of Libraries
Dover, DE
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